Comments on: Superchronicity

By: Araxie

Araxie — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:47:46 +0000

These were both lols for me. And if you wanted to look at it that way, Speedbump could have further subtext (Robin going for Superman instead of Batman? HMMMM??).

By: ljdarten

ljdarten — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:18:52 +0000

superman is vanilla with food coloring???

thats blasmphemy where i come from (SE ME)

one of the primary flavors is blue moon, which is another (slightly less so though) regional flavor. its also another flavor that many try to pretend to have.

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:03:07 +0000

@ The Bad Seed #14–also, where exactly is Robin’s left hand?! So he’s eating ice cream and, um, THINKING about Superman?!

By: Kamino Neko

Kamino Neko — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:50:56 +0000

Clark bar Kent is his Hebrew cousin.

By: No Hombre

No Hombre — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:46:55 +0000

Educational.
I had assumed it was a disguised Clark Bar(Kent)

By: Lgchrist

Lgchrist — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:42:15 +0000

Back in the 60’s when the Adam West Batman was on TV a local ice cream parlor had a Batman flavor. It was dark black in color and the flavor was licorice.

By: The Bad Seed

The Bad Seed — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:31:11 +0000

Considering the whole homoerotic speculation about Batman and Robin, whose flames were fanned by the SNL “Ambiguously Gay Duo” series of short animations, this Speed Bump is definitely an Eeew for me. This strip zoomed in color makes it more clear that Robin’s licking the ice cream (I wasn’t sure if that was tongue or lips, a top lip-line would have helped), as well as the coloration of the ice cream: http://comics.com/zoom/323999/

By: Molly J

Molly J — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:17:08 +0000

Kroger here in Illinois carries Superman flavor ice cream. I think it tastes nasty, personally. No idea if it tastes like real Superman or not.

By: Danny Boy (London Derriere)

Danny Boy (London Derriere) — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:16:21 +0000

Dan, there’s no contradiction between your reading and it being an actual flavor. Indeed, knowing it’s a real flavor makes the jealousy joke better.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:55:55 +0000

Holy hat. I would never have guessed that this was an actual flavor. I thought this was a clever (?) gay-subtext comic. There’s always those rumors about how Batman and Robin are gay (old man, young ward, suspect relationship right there dontchaknow), so I figured here Batman was jealous that Robin wanted “Superman” flavor.

I hope I’m not the only one to read it this way…